Electra (aircraft company)
Headquartered in northern Virginia, USA, Electra is building a hybrid-electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft that requires almost no runway, opening up a range of interesting flight capabilities bridging the gap between VTOLs and conventional planes. Full scale prototypes are being flight-tested, with over US$8 billion on the future books thanks to more than 2,000 pre-orders.
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This remarkable hybrid-electric aircraft has raked in more than US$8 billion on the back of its remarkable promise: quiet, long-range, low-emission flights using almost no runway for takeoff and landing. Watch it deliver in its first STOL test flight.